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Restaurants and Food Services

  • Food

    April 11, 2012

    Elixir G, Hangover Cure

    A ginger mix that's great in drinks, but better afterward.

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2012

    Comment of the Day: Don't Mess with the Food Critic

    Here's a tip to Voracious blog readers: Don't insult our food critic. For someone who pans million dollar establishments for a living, you're just fresh meat. That's what chauvinist commenter Dan Stoller learned. He tried to flame our food critic Hanna Raskin but got burned instead. His tirade and R ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    There's No Such Thing as Free Pretzels

    Craft cocktail bars tend to be very faithful to pre-Prohibition standards, from their glassware to their bartenders' facial hair. But the practice of treating patrons to free food along with their fancy drinks has vanished. During the late 19th century, the free lunch represented a rare point of ag ... More >>

  • Food

    December 21, 2011

    Minimum Wage, Maximum Headache

    The state's generosity is squeezing servers.

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    Look for Restaurant Service to Deteriorate When Minimum Wage Goes Up Next Month

    ​There are countless ways that service can go bad: Servers can be rude, robotic, clumsy, forgetful, uninformed, filthy, intrusive, confused or absent. In reviewing my notes on eight months of Seattle eating, I was struck by how many local servers fall into the final category. The word "neglect ... More >>

  • News

    November 30, 2011

    Chain-Restaurant Food Trucks

    No need to fear--corporate meals-on-wheels are a good thing.

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    Study Shows Seattle's Independent Restaurants Benefit From Yelp Ratings

    George's Deli has a perfect five-star rating on Yelp.​Restaurant owners often rail against Yelp, but a new study suggests they'd be better off working to improve their star ratings. As reported this week by the Huffington Post, Harvard Business School's Michael Luca crunched six years of numb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    Seattle's Best Dive Bars Guide Goes Mobile

    ​Most dive-bar denizens have no need for a guide to navigate a city's drinking dens; they've got their favorite, and they're sticking to it. But for interlopers who occasionally seek a dark, dirt-cheap and possibly dingy place to throw back a few drinks, it's helpful to know where to go. Seatt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    Does This Burger Make Me Look Fat?

    ​South Snohomish County's burger options will increase later this year, when Dick's Drive-In opens its sixth location on Aurora at 220th St. S.W. It's the first new location for the local burger chain in 36 years. In the Edmonds-Lynnwood-Mountlake Terrace area there are lots of fast-food burge ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Restaurant Group Replaces Bellevue's Barrio With Event Space

    ​Staffers at Barrio's Bellevue location today learned the two-year old restaurant has closed so its owners can transform the venue into an event and catering space. "It was a really tough decision," owner Larry Kurofsky of Heavy Restaurant Group, which operates four locations of Purple Café ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Restaurant Owner Tries To Rev Up Opposition to Street Food Plan

    ​Rancho Bravo Tacos owner Freddy Rivas, who last week told a city council committee that proposed food truck legislation would harm the local restaurant industry, is trying to mobilize organized opposition to the plan. Rivas objects to two components of the proposal, which is now under consid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Washington Restaurant Association Ramps Up Fight Against Paid Sick Leave

    ​With the movement for a mandatory paid sick leave ordinance seemingly gaining steam, the Washington Restaurant Association today exhorted its Seattle members to ask city council to oppose the plan. Josh McDonald, the association's director of state and local government affairs, says concern ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    Nine Seattle Restaurants Offer Discount to Union Members

    ​5 Point Café owner Dave Meinert believes union members - who've lately been blamed for wrecking state budgets, inhibiting job growth and assaulting Tea Party members - deserve a 15 percent break. Meinert's offering the discount to union members throughout the month of May. Thirty workers ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Starbucks Is Now the Third Largest Restaurant Chain in United States

    ​That's not third largest coffee chain, or third largest coffee retailer, mind you. Starbucks is now the third largest restaurant chain in the country.

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2010

    The Top (Meaning Bottom) Five Olive Garden Commercials

    Do you have any extra chromosomes? Do you cast your vote for President of the United States of America based on which candidate is likely to share your taste in beer? Have you ever typed the phrase "lol" for any reason other than to spell out "lollygagging?" If you answered "yes" to any of these que ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    Death By Cheesecake (and Cheeseburgers and Chocolate and Pizza...)

    These will kill you, allegedly​Oh, those crazy kids over at the Center for Science in the Public Interest... I mean, if they're not out there grading frozen yogurt or arguing for taxes on soda pop, then they're just trying to get everyone's undies in a bunch over some new list of calorically ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    Will Washington Drop the Booze Business?

    Leaving a location near you?​Most of Washington's bar owners, beverage distributors and state union activists don't yet know Charla Neuman. In a few weeks, there's a pretty good chance they will. Neuman, a public relations consultant, is helping to organize one of what could be handful of bal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2010

    Eat Your Heart (Attack) Out, KFC: Seattle's Top Five Healthy Chain-Restaurant Meals

    KFC just debuted its Double Down, a sauce-smothered, bacon-cheese heart attack sandwich wrapped in two pieces of fried chicken instead of bread. (Oy. Just writing that makes this writer feel bloated.) But you don't have to gorge on offensive quantities of grease just because you're dining at a chai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    Handicapping the James Beard Awards: Part 2

    ​Yesterday, I started off this handicapping project by discussing two of the really big categories of awards for which the James Beard Foundation just announced their list of semifinalists. Outstanding Restaurateur and Outstanding chef are two of the huge national awards given out each year. A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Flat Iron Grill Makes Its Date

    ​Last week, we had the news about now-ex Sip chef Cody Reaves jumping out of his post there to open the kitchen at the brand new Flat Iron Grill in Issaquah's Gilman Village. Now, I'm happy to announce that Flat Iron has actually hit its proposed opening date (as rare in the restaurant world ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Tom Carr and the Blue Moon's Happiest Hour

    ​Blue Moon owner Gus Hellthaler says he's a reasonable man. That's why lame-duck Seattle City Attorney Tom Carr is welcome at the Moon's Jan. 4, all-day, happy hour to celebrate Carr's last day in office. "I'd be happy to serve him," Hellthaler says, "if he behaves himself." It is Carr's be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    Day 9: A Dive Bar Advent Calendar - Moon Temple

    ​Our tribute to the holiday services provided by Seattle's Best Dive Bars continues with the Moon Temple (2108 N. 45th St.). If you've never lived or hung out in the Wallingford area, you might not understand the persistence of this plain Jane--and practically always empty--Chinese restaurant. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Day 7: A Dive Bar Advent Calendar - Old 5th Avenue Tavern

    ​Our tribute to the holiday services provided by Seattle's Best Dive Bars continues with the Old 5th Avenue Tavern (8507 5th Ave NE). The most successful dive bars appeal to the old dogs without excluding a younger crowd. In the Seely family, the Old 5th Avenue Tavern gets a gold star in this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    Dive Bars: Mostly Good, Rarely Bad, But Sometimes Ugly

    The Annex is a friendly non-neighborhood bar (unless you count a humongous airstrip and warehouses as neighbors) located near Randy's Diner and Boeing Field on Marginal Way, just to the south of the Seattle city limit. It serves extremely stiff drinks to one of the most genuinely diverse clienteles ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    Bon Voyage, C.C.

    C.C. Attle's, a mantastic bar on Madison which serves a stiffer-than-a-hard-on drink called a "gayhound," isn't long for this world, reports the P-I. CC's is among the 100-plus bars featured in my best-selling (still #15 at Elliott Bay!) debut novel, Seattle's Best Dive Bars: Drinking & Diving in th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2009

    Seely's Book Displaced on Bestseller List by Misanthropic Tasmanian Vegetable Gardener

    As we noted in a post last night, Mike Seely's softcover debut, Seattle's Best Dive Bars, recently cracked the Northwest bestseller list. Seely's book was #10 among nonfiction paperbacks for the week ending May 24, according to sales reports from indie booksellers. But what a difference a week mak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    Mike Seely, Karaoke Happy Hour, Sunset Tavern

    Join our managing editor, Mike Seely, for a book signing and happy hour at Ballard's Sunset Tavern this Friday celebrating his awesome new book, Seattle's Best Dive Bars: Drinking & Diving in the Emerald City (Ig Publishing, $12.95). Every section of prose seems to capture a little bit of its sub ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    My Dive Bar Book Will Get You Laid

    Particularly if you were using it to woo a young lady in skirt and heels at Golden City on April 20. If anyone else is interested in using something other than an interest in Camus to scare up tail, Seattle's Best Dive Bars: Drinking & Diving in the Emerald City can be purchased online or at booksto ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 22, 2009

    Mike Seely

    Particularly if you were using it to woo a young lady in skirt and heels at Golden City on April 20. If anyone else is interested in using something other than an interest in Camus to scare up tail, Seattle's Best Dive Bars: Drinking & Diving in the Emerald City can be purchased online or at booksto ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2009

    Rose Garden Sells Its Last Crack Vial

    The infamous Rose Garden has officially closed in the wake of an SPD sting that resulted in multiple drug purchases at the seedy Lake City bar, which ranked a lofty third on our list of Seattle's 10 most intimidating dive bars, and will join the ranks of the Ghosts of Dive Bars Past should there eve ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 8, 2009

    Mike Seely

    The infamous Rose Garden has officially closed in the wake of an SPD sting that resulted in multiple drug purchases at the seedy Lake City bar, which ranked a lofty third on our list of Seattle's 10 most intimidating dive bars, and will join the ranks of the Ghosts of Dive Bars Past should there eve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    West Seattle's Maharaja a Dive Bar No More

    I was planning on including the Maharaja in my upcoming book on Seattle dive bars, but when 'Lil Scoop and I walked in the other day to take photos for said book, we were shocked to find that what once was a dark drinking den is now an opulent new playground for the best bartender in town, Don Bog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2008

    Travel and Leisure Magazine Ranks Seattle Top of 25 Cities for Cafes, Farmers Markets, and Smarts

    I was planning on including the Maharaja in my upcoming book on Seattle dive bars, but when 'Lil Scoop and I walked in the other day to take photos for said book, we were shocked to find that what once was a dark drinking den is now an opulent new playground for the best bartender in town, Don Bog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2008

    Eat Outside! Just like Portland

    I was planning on including the Maharaja in my upcoming book on Seattle dive bars, but when 'Lil Scoop and I walked in the other day to take photos for said book, we were shocked to find that what once was a dark drinking den is now an opulent new playground for the best bartender in town, Don Bog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2008

    Comments of the Week: Ex-Cons and the Lunatic

    I was planning on including the Maharaja in my upcoming book on Seattle dive bars, but when 'Lil Scoop and I walked in the other day to take photos for said book, we were shocked to find that what once was a dark drinking den is now an opulent new playground for the best bartender in town, Don Bog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2008

    Calling All Rock Star Cooks & Baristas

    I was planning on including the Maharaja in my upcoming book on Seattle dive bars, but when 'Lil Scoop and I walked in the other day to take photos for said book, we were shocked to find that what once was a dark drinking den is now an opulent new playground for the best bartender in town, Don Bog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2007

    One Rule!

    I was planning on including the Maharaja in my upcoming book on Seattle dive bars, but when 'Lil Scoop and I walked in the other day to take photos for said book, we were shocked to find that what once was a dark drinking den is now an opulent new playground for the best bartender in town, Don Bog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2007

    Licensing the Nightlife

    I was planning on including the Maharaja in my upcoming book on Seattle dive bars, but when 'Lil Scoop and I walked in the other day to take photos for said book, we were shocked to find that what once was a dark drinking den is now an opulent new playground for the best bartender in town, Don Bog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2006

    Where do you go to escape Christmas?

    I was planning on including the Maharaja in my upcoming book on Seattle dive bars, but when 'Lil Scoop and I walked in the other day to take photos for said book, we were shocked to find that what once was a dark drinking den is now an opulent new playground for the best bartender in town, Don Bog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2006

    From Stumptown to Seattle, With Foam

    I was planning on including the Maharaja in my upcoming book on Seattle dive bars, but when 'Lil Scoop and I walked in the other day to take photos for said book, we were shocked to find that what once was a dark drinking den is now an opulent new playground for the best bartender in town, Don Bog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2006

    LQA Snow Pizza Report

    I was planning on including the Maharaja in my upcoming book on Seattle dive bars, but when 'Lil Scoop and I walked in the other day to take photos for said book, we were shocked to find that what once was a dark drinking den is now an opulent new playground for the best bartender in town, Don Bog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2006

    Revenge, Tall Single

    I was planning on including the Maharaja in my upcoming book on Seattle dive bars, but when 'Lil Scoop and I walked in the other day to take photos for said book, we were shocked to find that what once was a dark drinking den is now an opulent new playground for the best bartender in town, Don Bog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2006

    Smoking Ban Doesn't Pencil Out

    I was planning on including the Maharaja in my upcoming book on Seattle dive bars, but when 'Lil Scoop and I walked in the other day to take photos for said book, we were shocked to find that what once was a dark drinking den is now an opulent new playground for the best bartender in town, Don Bog ... More >>

  • Diversions

    October 26, 2005

    Play It Again, Sams

    A week's worth of ivory tickling, tonic, and gin.

  • Food

    January 12, 2005

    The Hole Story

    A week's worth of ivory tickling, tonic, and gin.

  • News

    October 24, 2001

    Queer, beer, and used to it

    Going to gay bars—because I have to.

  • Food

    July 18, 2001

    Side Dish

    Going to gay bars—because I have to.

  • News

    June 27, 2001

    Bored to death

    Going to gay bars—because I have to.

  • Arts

    February 7, 2001

    Supersize that

    Why Americans can't get enough of what's bad for them.

  • News

    February 24, 1999

    Tip dancing

    A local restaurateur comes up with a way to subvert the minimum-wage law.

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